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86%
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Shadow Company (2007) |
"
[A] fascinating, evenhanded documentary."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 13, 2007
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45%
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Cut Sleeve Boys (2007) |
"
[Director] Yeung handles [his characters'] parallel journeys of self-discovery with humor, grace and an occasionally heavy hand, with Leow giving a winning performance as Ash."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 9, 2007
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Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (2005) |
"
It's easy to keep blaming Ken Burns for this kind of softcore Civil War porn, but enough is enough: This is a vanity project of the most indulgent order."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 7, 2007
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38%
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Fakers (2004) |
"
Such artless inattention to the con man's craft might be overlooked if any of the characters or performers had the personality to pull one over on us, the audience."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 26, 2007
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64%
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Quality of Life (Against The Wall) (2006) |
"
It's a setup as old as the hills, but the unvarnished simplicity with which first-time director Benjamin Morgan rolls it out makes the tale worth another go-round."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted May 25, 2006
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12%
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An American Haunting (2006) |
"
This 'true account' of the Bell Witch haunting offers an encyclopedic rehash of spook films new and old, dressed out in murky period detail."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted May 4, 2006
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4%
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The Fog (2005) |
"
A film riddled with missed opportunities for good clean scares."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 20, 2005
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94%
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The Squid and the Whale (2005) |
"
in The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach weds his verbal gifts to a fresh visual acuity that brings layers of rich detail to a portrait of a family coping, poorly, with self-inflicted change."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 13, 2005
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82%
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Serenity (2005) |
"
It's the zippy chatter among the Serenity's wised-up space pirates that gives the film most of its punch, but with only serviceable action sequences and largely cookie-cutter effects, you can still sense the void just outside."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 29, 2005
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89%
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A State of Mind (2005) |
"
Gordon gives an intimate, balanced account of how political power, famine, power shortages and a hatred of America have shaped their young lives."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 1, 2005
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53%
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Killing Ends (Matando Cabos) (2005) |
"
Prominently placed in Jaque's bachelor pad is a poster for Down by Law, but it's abundantly clear that Lozano and company have been re-watching Pulp Fiction for the last decade."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 25, 2005
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13%
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The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) |
"
As a salvo in the culture wars, Dukes of Hazzard is a dud, and as an actual movie it doesn't rate much higher."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 4, 2005
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82%
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Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (2002) |
"
The Giants' longevity flows from the fact that they can't be explained, only experienced."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 28, 2003
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37%
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Spun (2003) |
"
While his characters wallow and his wasted cast founders in the shoals of Will De Los Santos and Creighton Vero's script, Åkerlund apes the tics of his primary influences: Oliver Stone, Darren Aronofsky and the photography of David LaChapelle."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2003
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60%
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Fidel (2002) |
"
It's a refreshing change from the self-interest and paranoia that shape most American representations of Castro."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 6, 2003
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34%
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Poolhall Junkies (2002) |
"
A one-way ticket to Palookaville."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 27, 2003
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18%
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The Jungle Book 2 (2003) |
"
It can't shake the impression of a video premiere stretched to big-screen size."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 12, 2003
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7%
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Dragonfly (2002) |
"
Despite the film's aspirations to soul healing, its uplift remains mechanical, like an escalator's."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 20, 2003
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3%
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Rollerball (2002) |
"
Pushes the Hollywood action movie to stratospheric new levels of incoherence."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 15, 2003
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59%
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Skins (2002) |
"
Rather quickly, the film falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 13, 2002
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81%
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Take Care of My Cat (Goyangileul butaghae) (2002) |
"
A captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless age."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 13, 2002
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38%
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Star Trek - Nemesis (2002) |
"
Nemesis never feels true to itself, its energy never fully engaged."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 12, 2002
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89%
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Trembling Before G-d (2001) |
"
Moving and, ultimately, hopeful -- a hope that extends further than most documentaries allow."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 12, 2002
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96%
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Promises (2002) |
"
Too sincere to exploit its subjects and too honest to manipulate its audience."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 9, 2002
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38%
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They (2002) |
"
Stinks from start to finish, like a wet burlap sack of gloom."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 5, 2002
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86%
|
Lilo & Stitch (2002) |
"
Disney's most winning animated couple since Bambi and Thumper."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 2, 2002
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10%
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Juwanna Mann (2002) |
"
Vaughan brings such disregard to the film that its pedestrian on-court action might as well have been shot from the bleacher seats."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 18, 2002
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40%
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Reign of Fire (2002) |
"
Despite a few epic revelations, we never get a real sense of living, breathing dragons."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 18, 2002
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75%
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The Way Home (Jibeuro) (2002) |
"
A conventional if appealing tear-jerker."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 14, 2002
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48%
|
Jackass - The Movie (2002) |
"
Best wear a helmet and have some fun."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 31, 2002
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15%
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I Spy (2002) |
"
Thomas trudges through the film's action sequences with such obvious disinterest that when Wilson turns from a lackluster fireball to quip, 'Whoa, that was a big explosion,' you really know he's putting us on."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 31, 2002
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67%
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The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001) |
"
An amusing scenario, until even Miike seems to lose his taste for the oddly sweet concoction and allows the film to drift aimlessly to a rainbow-hued finale."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 25, 2002
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60%
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Looking Through Lillian (2002) |
"
Torem drifts into formula and his initially promising film goes unbearably soft."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 24, 2002
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54%
|
The City of Lost Souls (Hyôryû-gai) (2001) |
"
While the film throws a solid pop punch, you could still swear you've seen it all before."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 24, 2002
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5%
|
Swept Away (2002) |
"
On top of a foundering performance, [Madonna's] denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 10, 2002
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30%
|
American Adobo (2002) |
"
Guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of things. She lists ingredients, but never mixes and stirs."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 3, 2002
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Rukajärven tie (Ambush) (2002) |
"
[It has] a humanist touch that stands at odds with the film's wholesale demonizing of the scattered Soviet army."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 3, 2002
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65%
|
Jonah - A VeggieTales Movie (2002) |
"
Your taste for Jonah - A Veggie Tales Movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the Holy Spirit."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 2, 2002
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—
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45%
|
Air Bud (1997) |
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 2, 2002
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69%
|
The Adventures of Felix (Drôle de Félix) (2001) |
"
It would all be too obviously feel-good if Ducastel and Martineau weren't also tuned in to the liberating drift of the open highway and a sharp native humor that adds needed flesh and blood to their walking metaphors."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 1, 2002
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—
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45%
|
The Acid House (1998) |
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 1, 2002
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71%
|
Girls Can't Swim (2002) |
"
The film's intimate camera work and searing performances pull us deep into the girls' confusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that's opened between them."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 30, 2002
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43%
|
Wasabi (2001) |
"
The film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 26, 2002
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0%
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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) |
"
While much of the film's action ... comes live, as opposed to the digital mayhem of the game, Thai director Kaos (a.k.a. Wych Kaosayananda), making his inauspicious Hollywood debut, still can't breathe any life into it."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 19, 2002
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60%
|
Crop Circles: Quest for Truth (2002) |
"
Why Crop Circles now, if not to ride the hype of M. Night Shyamalan's Signs to some quick cash? The movie's rambling, slapdash, repetitious nature suggests as much."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 17, 2002
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38%
|
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) |
"
Hartnett's pitch-perfect sexual panic can be hilariously funny."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 16, 2002
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27%
|
Amy's O (Amy's Orgasm) (Why Love Doesn't Work) (2002) |
"
It's supposed to be post-feminist breezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on Oprah."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 29, 2002
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6%
|
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) |
"
Dismally dull sci-fi comedy."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 22, 2002
|
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83%
|
Pauline & Paulette (2002) |
"
The film's plainness, and the understated force of van der Groen and Petersen's performances, sharpen its complexity of feeling until all mawkishness is cut away."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 12, 2002
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